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Catalan President Lluís Companys is arrested by Brittany Gestapo

84
years ago

13 August 1940,

Gestapo stops Catalan President Lluís Companys in Brittany. The Gestapo was accompanied by the Spanish Francoist police Pedro Urraca, agent in charge of hunting exiled authorities. After questioning at La Santé prison in Paris, they received the extradition order to Madrid with a “secret” note from the Franco services. After being tortured in Madrid, he was shot in Barcelona in October after being sentenced to death by a Montjuic War Council. He was 58 years old and his last cry "Per Catalunya!" was.

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Historical Memory Kepa Ordoki in Bidasoa, 80 years with President Lluís Companys surrender.

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